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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.
Age equivalent
RTI
Curriculum referenced tests
Middle English
2. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
Morphology
Anglo Saxon
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Base Word
3. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning
Vowel Digraph
Reading Comprehension Support
Diagnostic tests
Standard Scores
4. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Vowel
WIATII
Anglo Saxon
5. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.
Accommodation
Dyslexia
Prefix
NICHD
6. Academic Language Therapy Association
ALTA
Percentile/ percentile rank
Linguistic Method
Towre
7. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.
Chall's Stage 0
Prefix
Mathew Effect
Three Layers of Language
8. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes
Towre
Grade equivalents
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Percentile/ percentile rank
9. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo
Fluency
Joe Torgesen
Orthography
Matthew Effect
10. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.
Percentile
Oral Language
Derivative
Visual Learners
11. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.
Latin layer of language
Simultaneous teaching
Consonant
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
12. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.
Derivative
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Old English
Multisensory
13. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.
Kinesthetic
Social language
Mastery level
James Hinshelwood
14. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language
Modification
Chall's Stage 3
Accuracy
Syntax
15. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.
Quadrigraph
Accent
Phonology
Anglo Saxon
16. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
Composite Score
Modification
IEP
Fluency
17. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words
Old English
Kinesthetic
ESL
Towre
18. The teacher musts be adept at individualized teaching based on continual assessment of the student's needs. Content should be mastered to a level of automaticity.
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Joe Torgesen
Diagnostic Teaching
19. Individuals with a Disabilities Act
Expressive language
Age equivalent
Auditory Processing
IDEA
20. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds
Linguistic Method
VC
Consonant
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
21. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.
Breve
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Adolf Kusmaul
Social language
22. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.
Analytic
Fluency
Accuracy
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
23. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
Great Vowel Shift
WIATII
Texas Education Code 38.003
Morpheme
24. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Funding
Criterion-Referenced Test
Three Layers of Language
25. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -
Profile
Middle English
Tilde
Funding
26. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.
SBOE
Comprehension
Pre-English
Derived Score
27. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Syntax
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Cedilla
28. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes
ESL
Base Word
Derivative
Age equivalent
29. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.
Cognition
Phonological Awareness
Expressive language
Vowel
30. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.
Combination
Phonics
Latin layer of language
Modification
31. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Standardized test
ESL
Reading Comprehension Support
Base Word
32. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.
Auditory Processing
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Cognition
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
33. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Standard score
Anglo Saxon
Morpheme
NICHD
34. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.
ALTA
Auditory Processing
Consonant
Curriculum referenced tests
35. Closed syllable
Chall's Stage 4
Sound Symbol Association
Phoneme
VC
36. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
The Norman Conquest
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Impulsivity
ALTA
37. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun
Multi-Sensory Approach
Phonology
Academic Achievement Tests
Cedilla
38. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag
Rate
The Norman Conquest
Top-down Reading Approach
Phoneme
39. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)
Raw score
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Universal Screening
Open Syllable
40. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood
Trigraph
Curriculum referenced tests
Grapheme
Samuel T. Orton
41. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.
Anglo Saxon
Cedilla
Semantics
Diagnostic tests
42. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.
Modern English
Suffix
ALTA
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
43. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.
Standard Scores
Progress Monitoring
Dyslexia
Towre
44. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language
Components of Reading Instruction
Multi-Sensory Approach
VV
Middle English
45. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media
Digraph
Reading Comprehension Support
Visual Learners
Chall's Stage 2
46. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.
Affix
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Fluency
Social language
47. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Six basic types of syllables
Middle English
Receptive language
48. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia
Cedilla
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
49. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)
Trigraph
Derived Score
Funding
Grapheme
50. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test
Prefix
Reliability
VV
Texas Administrative Code 74.28